as in understandable
capable of being understood
an anxious mood that was clearly legible upon her face
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Recent Examples of legible
What hits on TikTok is a legible, irresistible hook — or, in other words, the kind of content that smacks you in the face with its obviousness.
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Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 10 Jan. 2025
The adulterers aren’t written off as bad people; their sins are legible within the context of their lives.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025
Layers of graffiti reveal generations of suffering, with older texts barely legible beneath newer ones.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Barely legible messages flick up in green, red and yellow, then vanish.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2025
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Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 10 Jan. 2025
The adulterers aren’t written off as bad people; their sins are legible within the context of their lives.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025
Layers of graffiti reveal generations of suffering, with older texts barely legible beneath newer ones.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Barely legible messages flick up in green, red and yellow, then vanish.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Legible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legible. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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